Tailor s pressing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

O. W. WILLIAMS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TAILORS PRESSING-IVIACHINE.

A Specification of Letters Patent No. 16,106, dated November 18, 1856.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O. W. WILLIAMS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Tailors Pressing-Machines, and that the followingdescription, taken in reference with the accompanying drawings,hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of thesame, wherein I have set forth the nature and principle of my saidimprovements, by which my invention may be distinguished from others ofa similar class, together with such parts as I claim, and desire to havesecured to me by Letters Patent.

The figures of the accompanying plate of drawings represent myimprovements.

Figure l is a side elevation of my improved machine, Fig. 2 is a centralvertical section of the same.

The operation of pressing tailors`r goods, and other cloths by hand, isan exceedingly laborious one, and at the same time it is necessary thatthe goose should be free to move in every possible direction. No tailorspressing machine has heretofore been devised in which the goose could bemanipulated by the pressman with the same freedom as by hand labor, thatis so as to give it a continuous sweeping or sliding movement while thepressure was applied. By the present invention the goose can be moved inevery possible direction with the same freedom as by hand labor, andwhile the pressure is applied to it, the iron being attached to a handlever which is connected by a universal joint to a convex disk, of theshape of a segment of a sphere, the said convex disk turning freely on aball and socket joint and sustaining the whole machine.

a, a, in the drawings represents the supporting framework of themachine.

b is a convex disk sustained to the longitudinal bracket c, or to theceiling of a room, by a bolt CZ the head of which is formed into a ballc which plays in a suitable socket, constituting a ball and socketjoint, which allows the disk b to play in every direction.

y' is a spiral spring wound around the bolt d, one end of which pressesagainst the under side of t-he disk and the other end upon a nut g, bywhich the tension of the spring can be regulated at pleasure.

h, 7L', &c., are supporting arms which extend from the circumference ofthe disk to the short shaft z'.

la is a hand lever attached to the iron or goose Z by a pivot joint mwhich forms the fulcrum of the lever.

By means of a set screw n it will readily be seen that the position ofthe fulcrum, and consequently the power of the lever can be varied atpleasure. The lever 73 7c is connected to the short shaft i, beforereferred. to, by pivot joints n, 0, and the vertical rod 79, whichextends up into the shaft z' and is fastened by a set screw g, wherebyit will be seen that the iron can be raised or lowered so as to adapt itto different thicknesses of goods.

The lower end of the vertical rod j) turns freely in a socket or hollowshaft j). The connection thus formed between the hand lever and shortshaft i (connected to the disk b) by means of the joint a o and turningrod 29, constitutes a. universal joint, which permits the iron to bemoved, not only in right lines, but in every possible sweep that thepressman may desire.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that by suspending theiron from a convex disk which turns upon a ball and socket joint, andconnecting the hand lever (to .which the iron is attached) to the diskcr its arms by a. universal joint, the pressman has simply to move thegoose by the handle of the lever in precisely the same manner as by theordinary hand pressing, while he can vary at will the pressure upon thegoose, and at the same time move the same in every desired direction,while the pressure is applied, and with a very slight expenditure ofstrength.

It will further be observed that as the iron is moved toward or awayfrom the center of the disk, the spiral spring f before referred to willpermit the disk to play up and down a little upon the bolt, and that theconvex surface of the disk will always attain a bearing directly overthe fulcrum of the lever.

Having thus described my improvements I shall state my claims asfollows:

llVhat I claim as my invention and desire to have secured to me byLetters Patent is,

Suspending the iron or goose from a convex disk which turns freely upona ball and socket joint or its equivalent and which forms a bearing forthe lever to act against as set forth.

C. W'. VILLIAMS. Witnesses:

JOSEPH GAVETT, SAMUEL N. PIPER.

